American Literary Canon Quotes & Sayings

Everything I've done has had purpose and has been passionate and has been executed in the best way that I knew how. Maybe that's not the perfect way. Maybe that's not the easiest way. But it's the best way I knew how to do it. — Julia Roberts

We're all vanishing organisms and disappearing creatures in space and time - that death sentence in space in time that Kafka talked about with such profundity. — Cornel West

I think that's why I became good at art. It was something that I could do that I could be really proud of. — Dave Cooper

We all exist in similar systems that mirror and reproduce the same American culture for the most part. What Oscar Wilde said about the lucky author who has a non-literary day job no longer holds, if it ever did. Artists seek validation as much as they seek money. The creation and invention of culture and canon is where most of the trouble lies. — Fady Joudah

That she had loved Sylveste because he was such a self-important bastard and made something noble of being a self-important bastard, did it with such utter aplomb that it became a kind of virtue, like the wearing of sackcloth — Alastair Reynolds

The way I change my life is to act as if I am the person I really want to be. — Ashley Montagu

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power. — Thomas Hobbes

He loves her for everything she is and is not. She's old enough to appreciate that. — Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney